Contact: Toby Chaudhuri or Andrea Miller, 202-955-5665, both of Campaign for America's Future

News Advisory:

The Campaign for America's Future will recognize three bright lights in the progressive movement - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund President Elaine Jones and Moveon.org - at its "Take Back America" Gala Awards Dinner Wednesday, June 2.

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will receive the America's Future Progressive Champion Award for his work cleaning up corporate America and will deliver the keynote address. Elaine Jones will be saluted with the prestigious America's Future Lifetime Leadership Award for her invaluable contributions to civil rights, law and politics in America. Jones recently retired after more than 3 decades with the Legal Defense Fund. MoveOn.org's staff and membership will receive the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award for their work engaging and mobilizing people in America. Moveon.org has more than 2 million activists in the United States, making it larger than the Christian Coalition at its peak.

Thousands of progressive leaders, experts and activists will gather in Washington to "Take Back America" at the Campaign for America's Future's conference Wednesday, June 2nd through Friday, June 4th. The conference will bring together all of the groups working hard this year, independent of the Democratic Party, to change the national debate, to challenge the Right and to promote a positive agenda for change.

NOTE: Media representatives who wish to cover conference events should pre-credential by faxing their name and contact information on accredited letterhead to Andrea Miller at 202-478- 0953 no later than May 28, 2004.

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Story Source: US Newswire

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